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Ogg Theora In Firefox, With Wikimedia Support

Posted by timothy on from the cause-for-optimism dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ogg Theora support for the HTML5 <video> tag is in the Firefox 3.1 nightlies. Theora is the only video format allowed on Wikimedia Commons, so Wikimedia people are pushing Wikipedia readers to download a nightly and try it out. Break it, crash it, report bugs, get it into good shape and nullify Apple and Nokia's FUD the best way possible. They may have gotten the words 'Vorbis' and 'Theora' removed from the HTML5 spec, but the market will tell them when their browsers are sucking."

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  1. That is nice by DaveV1.0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Have the fixed the bug that causes crashes in Yahoo Mail Beta?

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  2. Ogg by ichthus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I ate some bad chicken last night, and now I have a case of ogg theora. I'm a little concerned about all the water I'm using each time I flush the vorbis after ogging.

    Seriously, I'm all for open compression codecs, but do they need to be included in the browser? Can't I just install a plugin (if I want to) and keep the browser slim and lean?

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  3. Re:YouTube by kv9 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Obviously you're not watching the videos then, because that's where they are.

    I don't know what kind of stupid shit you watch that has ads in it, but I waste time on Youtube all day long and I've never seen one. ever.

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